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Form of workWe are offering a three-month fixed-term contract for a full-time role dedicated to supporting young people. This position requires a shift pattern to ensure maximum coverage, working 35 hours per week on a rota basis. Shifts include early (06:15 to 15:15) and late (12:30 to 21:30), with a schedule of 4/5 days per week, including working one in every three weekends.
Based at their beautiful 50-acre estate, the Resource/Workforce Planning Team are looking for a self-motivated, practical and friendly Resource Planner to actively manage the staff rotas across the organisation to ensure the best utilisation of resource to support their young people with severe autism.
You will be responsible for the daily deployment of agency resources and the re-deployment of Prior’s Court resources to ensure safe levels of staffing are always maintained. Using data and insight, you will influence other internal functions to improve resource levels; ensuring that the organisations resourcing priorities are met.
Working collaboratively and supportively with the management and leadership teams to ensure resources are well planned and issues are tackled well in advance will be paramount to your success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain the rota systems within Prior’s Court; identifying overages and shortages in staffing levels and resolving these to ensure an optimal and safe staffing level is always maintained across the site.
- Work closely with the care, education, and leadership teams to plan and deploy staff as required to fulfil demand across all employee types: full-time, part-time, variable and seasonal workers
- Deploy preferred agency staff after internal options have been exhausted and deliver upon business budgets or agency staff objectives
- Meet regularly with Managers and Leadership teams to discuss resourcing requirements, challenges and agree solutions to staffing issues
- Manage the daily deployment of Agency staff into homes to ensure optimal and safe coverage with the resources available
- Process first stage Annual Leave requests to ensure that site coverage is not put at risk should the line manager approve during second stage approval
- Process all staff absences into the relevant systems and plan staff backfill if required
About You
- Excellent organisational and planning capabilities
- Effective communication skills and the ability to build relationships
- IT literate, including basic Excel
- The ability to work well under pressure and to deadlines whilst demonstrating a sense of humour
- Resourceful and a natural problem solver
- Ability to work shifts
- Own transport
In Return, we provide the following benefits:
Salary: £30,000 | 25 days holiday + bank Holidays | Pension (Employer contribution 5%, Employee contribution 3%) | Life Assurance (2x basic salary) | Health Cash Plan | Employee Assistance Programme | Eye Tests | Flu Vaccinations | Discounted Gym Memberships | Cycle2Work Scheme
About Us
Prior's Court was set up by Founding Patron Dame Stephanie Shirley, whose vision of a centre of excellence for children with autism became reality with the opening of Prior's Court School in 1999. We have since grown to support around 90 young people with autism aged between 5-25 years with the opening of Prior's Court Young Adult Provision in 2011.
Since opening, our support team has grown from around 20 to 500 and we have built a reputation as a leading edge educational, vocational, and residential facility for young people with autism. We are situated on 50 acres of parkland with various facilities including accommodation for our young people, a school with a wide range of facilities and offices.
